Fault Finding
22 May 2024
If your technology is on the blink, these guys will find out what’s wrong.
Photographing OO scale figures this close up is a challenge because every moulding and painting fault is obvious, so there’s a fair amount of Photoshop touch-up needed to straighten things out.
Still Trying...
18 May 2024
..for that elusive hole in one.
The golfer has been in my collection of figures for a while, waiting for the right idea to present itself. This week I was at a webinar presented by David Gilliver who also photographs model figures and he’d used ‘hundreds and thousands’ aka ‘nonpareils’ to represent golf balls on a driving range. That lit the spark for this guy to be photographed ‘Still Trying For That Elusive Hole In One’.
Rather than stack this to bring the whole image into sharpness, I’ve used the fall-off of focus to suggest distance, and to make the golfer and his paraphernalia the focal point of the picture so that the joke resolves itself (I hope) more slowly.
Hong Kong Housing
13 May 2024
Looking from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island the apartments on the waterfront seem tiny and the blocks crammed together tightly.
I don’t know what the reality is like, but through a long-lens and from the perspective of my every-day life this looks like a high-pressure existence.
Heda - Sean Henry
1 May 2024
One of 28 sculptures by Sean Henry displayed in various settings in and outside of Ely Cathedral.
The exhibition is titled Am I my brother’s keeper?
Shinjuku
27 April 2024
It’s loud, bright, crowded and utterly bonkers. And so much fun to be part of.